The following are upgrade considerations for App Studio:

• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.1 Version 05, the date format in the Open File dialog box and the Environments Detail panel no longer displays day, month, date, year hh:mm:ss AM/PM, by default. The default date format is now the shorter one, and displays mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm AM/PM. You can use the longer format by clearing the Use short Last Modified format check box, in the App Studio Options dialog box.
• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.1 Version 05, the Show All Files in Associated Paths option has been removed from the Environments Tree panel. This option is still available in the Environments Detail panel. Additionally, you can now select it in the Open File dialog box, as shown in the following image.

  

• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.1 Version 05, the calendar control settings for dynamic date ranges now use a request name, rather than a procedure. The following image shows the section of the Settings panel, where this option appears.

  

  If you open an HTML page that contains a calendar control that was created prior to Release 8.1 Version 05, the Select custom request field will contain a request that was automatically generated by the original procedure used in the calendar.

• As of Release 8.1 Version 05, the Bold, Italic, and Underline options for formatting font are no longer available from the shortcut menu in the HTML canvas or Document canvas. To access these options, you can highlight the font that you want to style, right-click the text, point to Style, and then click Font. These options are available in the Font dialog box.
• As of Release 8.1 Version 05, when working with HTML pages, you can no longer add a new ActiveX component. This command, which was available on the ribbon, from the Components tab, in the Objects group, and from the HTML canvas shortcut menu, has been removed. If you have HTML pages with existing ActiveX components, you can edit them, but you cannot add new components.
• As you add objects to the canvas with the Autosize Children option turned on, the existing objects will temporarily move out of the way so that you can draw the new objects and then the existing objects will return to the correct positioning.
• Running a report, chart, HTML, or document using Internet Explorer no longer produces the pending screen “Waiting for response...”.
• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.1 Version 05, the Refresh View option applies to all nodes within the Configured Environments tree, whether they are visible or not. This is a change in behavior that affects the performance of the system, because the number of items that are being refreshed has increased. However, this change in behavior does not affect the processing speed of the product.
• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.1 Version 05, the Table and Grid components for HTML pages no longer include the Check for duplicate value and Sort options, which were previously available in the Settings panel. These options were removed because they were incompatible with the data structures for Table and Grid components.